Installing PIP without Error

What is PIP?

PIP stands for Preferred Installer Program or alternatively called Pip Installs Packages is a package management system that is used to install and manage software packages written in Python.

Whenever you want to install any packages in a Python environment, PIP is used. For example, if you want to install pandas, you need to run the code ‘pip install pandas’

Installing PIP

Checking PIP version

If you have Python installed on your machine, Python 2.7.9 and later or Python 3.4 and later, it already contains PIP by default. You can just check its installation by the below code:

pip --version

Upgrading PIP

If the above code gives you a version, it means, your system has already PIP installed. If you want to update your PIP installation, you can run the following code:

-m pip install --upgrade pip

Downloading the PIP of a particular version

Sometimes you feel the need to change your pip installation to a particular version. You can simply do this using the below code:

python -m pip install pip==17.0

If you don’t have PIP installed, you can download it manually for windows through the code get-pip.py (https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py). It will download the file. Store this file in the same directory where Python is installed.

In the command line, set your path to the location where the above file is stored and run the below command which will install PIP on your machine.

python get-pip.py